Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

13.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

14.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

15.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

16.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

17.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

22.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

27.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

28.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

29.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

31.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

33.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

34.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

35.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

36.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

37.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

38.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

39.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

40.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

46.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich